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1936 Cable Street Riots

Writer: David Rosenberg

Trouble brewing

The Jewish Chronicle, an independent newspaper representing the wealthier end of the community, was loath to believe that the forces of law and order behaved unjustly, and equally reluctant to believe that Jews faced terror on Britain's streets. But with letters pouring into their offices they sent a "special correspondent" to the East End in the summer of 1936 to observe and interview the community under attack He concluded: "No one who witnesses the weekly march of the fascists to their headquarters … and sees the populace forming into two camps on opposite sides of the road can fail to realise the growing possibility of rioting and violence."

He added, "If the Blackshirts are allowed to continue their villainous campaign of lies and incitement, racial riots must not be regarded as an improbable result. This is not scaremongering". The Chronicle's editor continued the theme: "Humble traders are abused and assaulted, little children taught to lisp 'down with the Jews', Jewish residents afraid to leave their homes at night".

A wider recognition of how serious the situation was becoming in the East End finally came in a special parliamentary debate on anti-Semitic terror in July 1936. George Lansbury MP declared: "Unless this thing is put an end to – I have known East London all my life – there will one of these days be such an outburst as few of us would dare to contemplate." DN Pritt MP warned the Government that if it failed to act there would be "pogroms in this country". Pogroms – a word associated with murderous anti-Semitic riots in Tsarist Russia was being used in the UK.

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